Thomas Nashe
Who is Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer.: 5 He is known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller, his pamphlets including Pierce Penniless, and his numerous defences of the Church of England.
Life
Nashe was the son of the parson William Nashe and Janeth (née Witchingham). He was born and baptised in Lowestoft, on the coast of Suffolk, where his father, William Nashe, or Nayshe as it is recorded, was curate. Though his mother bore seven children, only two survived childhood: Israel (born in 1565) and Thomas.: 11 The family moved to West Harling, near Thetford, in 1573 after Nashe's father was awarded the living there at the church of All Saints. Around 1581 Thom...
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Thomas Nashe Poems
- Autumn
Autumn hath all the summer's fruitful treasure;
Gone is our sport, fled is poor Croydon's pleasure.
Short days, sharp days, long nights come on apace,
Ah, who shall hide us from the winter's face?
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- A Litany In Time Of Plague
Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss;
This world uncertain is;
Fond are life's lustful joys;
Death proves them all but toys;
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- Summer's Last Will And Testament (excerpt)
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king,
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
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- Poem 1 From Pierce Penilesse
Why ist damnation to dispaire and die,
When life is my true happinesse disease?
My soule, my soule, thy safetye makes me flie
The faultie meanes, that might my paine appease.
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- Fair Summer Droops
Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore,
So fair a summer look for nevermore:
All good things vanish less than in a day,
Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay.
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- Texaswinehouse: spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king, then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing:
thomas nashe
- Chinaculture8: the fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
in every street these tunes our ears do greet:
cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!
spring, the sweet spring!
--- thomas nashe
- Lee_durkee: "thomas nashe (1567-1600), perhaps the only english author whose work led to the closure of theatres and the widespread banning of printed books, was famous for writing the scurrilous novel the unfortunate traveler . . . " andrew hadfield 2/2
- Cbdcuredisease: spring equinox 2023: ancient traditions of renewal echo into
the modern world.
thomas nashe, the 16th-century british poet and dramatist, certainly looked forward to spring in his own colorful, singsong way:
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